Brief Life History of Clara Belle
When Clara Belle Rediker was born on 23 April 1880, in Presque Isle, Aroostook, Maine, United States, her father, John Burpee Archibald Rediker, was 26 and her mother, Eliza Lestena Ireland, was 20. She married Isaac W Clark on 26 May 1898, in Fort Fairfield, Aroostook, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Easton, Aroostook, Maine, United States in 1898 and Fort Fairfield, Aroostook, Maine, United States for about 10 years. She died on 22 February 1942, in Maine, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Fairmount Cemetery, Presque Isle, Aroostook, Maine, United States.
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- Clara Clark in household of Isaac Clark, "United States Census, 1900"
- Clara Rediker, "Maine, Marriage Index, 1892-1966, 1977-1996"
- Clara Belle Clark, "Find A Grave Index"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
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North German: variant of Rediger .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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